Welcome to Swearer Sparks, an online platform for social innovation and storytelling where students and alumni at Brown University can spark new relationships and solutions for social change. Learn more.
Recent Stories on Sparks
Maneul Contreras '16 is a Social Innovation Fellow developing 1vyG, an organization that strengthens and empowers first-generation communities.
Daniel Coppersmith '15 is a Royce Fellow studying depression and suicide in Ethiopia.
Maya Finoh '17 is working with the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) through an iProv Summer Internship.
Katie Rose Lamb '16 is a Policy Intern for the Rhode Island Health Center Association through the iProv Summer Internship Program.
Hannah Duncan '15 is a recipient of the Royce Fellowship this summer to research the evolution of the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) to investigate relationships between the local leadership of CDGM and the funding provided, and later withheld, by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Benjamin Flakoll '16 is a Royce Fellow studying horse performance and motivation in the hopes that his findings will allow him to develop and test humane teaching methods that will serve as a new example for horse training.
Lauren Behgam '15 is an Environmental Studies concentrator working with Farm Fresh Rhode Island through an iProv Summer Internship.
Krishan Aghi '15 is a Neuroscience Concentrator and 2014 recipient of the Royce Fellowship. His research project titled "The Effects of Optogenetic Inhibition of the PER-POR Pathway on Contextual Memory and Learning." To tell us about his research, Aghi takes a creative writing approach from the pespective of a rat in his lab.
Liza Yeager '17 is a Storyteller For Good working for the Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism through an iProv Summer Internship.